Frontispiece illustration from the 1855
edition of "Colored Patriots of the American
Revolution" by W.C. Nell shows Crispus
Attucks, the "first martyr of the American
Revolution" fired on by British soldiers
in Boston on March 5, 1770.

Chapter: New Hampshire
Excerpted from William C. Nell's "Colored Patriots
of the American," Robert F. Wallcut, Boston,
1855.